Headline March 20 2018/ ''' *BRO*-*DUDE* BOLLYWOOD '''

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UP THERE IN HEAVENS - watching and ever proud of her great daughter's accomplishments, to help and build a better world, is Haleema's  Mother.

In the memory of her revered mother, The World Students Society is very honored to nominate Haleema, an Engineer and Technologist Telecommunication as-

The Honorary President of The World Students Society for the week. At the strike of the midnight tock, past, Haleema, takes over.

The students of Proud Pakistan and The World Students Society, for every subject in the world - gives Haleema, an astounding team-founder and the first - *Editor-in-Chief of Sam Daily Times* : *The Voice Of The Voiceless*,  a standing ovation.

The World Students Society expects and hopes, that  Haleema will continue to make sacrifices, and match them by tripling her hardwork and her superb devotion to all things Great.

In ''Sultan'', the man who brings the televised martial art league to India is part of the country's moneyed English speaking elite.

In ''Sultan,''  the villain,  if there is one, is the culture of franchises and brands, that has brought the  outline of a modern society to India over the past 25 years.

The eponymous protagonist and his story about a televised mixed martial  arts league functions as a parable about a society trying to assimilate an onslaught of foreign influence.

In every area of life, from sporting events to television channels, retail to restaurants,  and even think tanks, magazines and publishing houses, modernity arrives in India ready-made.

The country is in the process of refashioning itself in the image of the West.

Bollywood films capture the violence and  humiliation   -and the very rage-  that accompanies an old society remaking itself to fit the mold of another.

In ''Sultan,'' the man who brings the  televised martial arts league to India is part of the country's moneyed English speaking elite.

He uses words like ''bro'' and ''dude,'' and he almost definitely went to a college in the  United States.

He's frustrated with his country's unwillingness to embrace his league.

Early on in the film,  his father, who we are to understand is less of a foreigner in his own country, sits him down to give him a lesson.

He speaks of the need for India to make the league its own.

''It does have a future, but you don't see it,'' the father says, using the league as a metaphor, for the country.

''But the future of this league does not lie in the hands of white men. ''

Then, in speaking of the need for India to imbue modernity with her own essence, the father gives voice to a deeply disturbing emotion, an anger that boils up in societies bombarded with foreign influence.

He says : ''The only thing that's going to make that  stadium fill up is the sight of an Indian pummeling white man into the ground.''

Bollywood's reach extends well beyond India.

These melodramas, which are so distasteful to the  contemporary European and American palate, ply well in Kuala Lumpur and Cairo. This is the cinema of the global South, a fun house mirror image of Hollywood.

In America, one rarely hears about what the transmission of  global culture  -which is in fact American culture-   feels like on the receiving end.

But it is not a neutral process.

This transmission creates a    profound    disturbance. It reconfigures a society    -its mores, its values, its relationships. It can deal a blow to the morale of a place.

The world ''confidence'' comes up again and again in ''Sultan,'' and it speaks to the trauma an old society undergoes as it tries to absorb the appeal of a foreign culture, while at the same time trying to remain true to itself and its genus.

What I love about Bollywood is that it is the only popular medium in which I can see the these concerns reflected.

We live in an age when civilization anger has been so taken over by extremism that it has been rendered untouchable. Bollywood films like ''Sultan'' are a reminder that the rage of feeling culturally encircled is not limited to the Islamic world.

Nor is it incomprehensible.

That afternoon, as  I wept my heart  out on the last day of the brief appearance of  ''Sultan'' in Manhattan, I realized that I was watching something that was commercial cinema for a vast portion of humanity, and yet-

Utterly marginal in, in this center of Western power where I was watching it.

With respectful dedication to the Leaders,  Parents, Students, Professors and Teachers of the world. See Ya all on !WOW!  -the World Students Society and Twitter -!E-WOW! - the Ecosystem 2011:


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*SAUDI -EMIRATI- QATARI*

Saudi, Emirati and Qatari leaders will beat a path to US President Donald Trump's door in the next few weeks for back-to-back visits-

That are unlikely to solve a long-running dispute among America's Gulf allies.

Washington is keen to end the stand-off between Qatar on one side and several other Arab nationals on the other.

The rift has divided the Gulf Cooperation Council {GCC} group of nations and hurt US led efforts to maintain a strong front against Iran.

The United States was hoping to host a US-GCC summit later this year but the prospects of that happening appear slim given that the rival leaders are still at odds.

''They don't see eye-to-eye. They are not ready to solve this crisis,'' a senior administration official said, referring to the parties embroiled in the Gulf crisis.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt have cut off travel and trade ties with  Qatar last June, accusing it of backing their arch-rival Iran and supporting terrorism.

Qatar denies the charges and says the boycott is an attempt to impinge on its sovereignty  and reign in its support for reform,

Washington has strong alliances with the rival sides.

Qatar hosts the largest  US air base in the region which has been crucial to its  anti-Islamic State military campaign in Syria and Iraq.

At the same time, the Trump administration has forged even closer ties with Qatar's rivals, Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will meet with Trump on Tuesday in Washington and the Qatar dispute is unlikely to be at the forefront of issues the young leader will want to discuss, diplomats say.

Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani then meets Trump on April 10 in the White House.

And, keen to have the last word with Trump. Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bun Zayed has sought to meet Trump after a scheduled meeting with the Qatari emir, the senior administration official said. [Agencies].

*AFGHANISTAN'S BABY *DONALD TRUMP*

Inspired by Trump : Donald was born in the central province of Daikundi, a few months before the 2016 US presidential election-

On the farm where Sayed's parents and grandparents grew almonds, wheat and corn.

Sayed was inspired to call his son Donald Trump after reading the Persian language versions of  the businessman's books, including ''How to get rich,'' which he borrowed from the local library........

DONALD TRUMP flops over his pink and white baby walker and rolls it around his family's modest home in Kabul, blissfully unaware-

Of the turmoil his 'infidel' name is causing in the deeply conservative Muslim country.

The rosy-cheek toddler's parents named him after the billionaire US President in the hope of replicating his success.

 But now he is at the centre of social media firestorm in Afghanistan after a photo of his ID papers was posted on Facebook.

A self-confessed fan of the American tycoon turned leader of the free world. Syed Assadullah  Pooya said he and his wife have been inundated with ''vulgar and insulting'' comments attacking their choice of name for their third child.

Some Facebook users have gone as far as threatening to kill Sayed for giving his son an ''infidel name'' while others have accused him of endangering the boy's life.

There are even suggestions that Sayed is using the moniker to wrangle asylum in the United States - a charge that 28 year-old teacher vehemently denies.

''I didn't know at the beginning that Afghan people would be so sensitive about a name,'' Sayed told AFP. as Donald played with a music app on his father's  Samsung smartphone in their carpeted room.

Sayed says someone posted the picture online, sparklng the controversy that forced him to close his  Facebook account.

Even Sayed's neighbors in the heavily Shiite area of Kabul where they live have threatened the family and told them to leave.

''When I go out of the house, I feel intimated,'' he said. [Agencies]

*INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY'S CONVENTION*

MAJOR CRACKDOWN : Unanimous resolution passed to halt the supply of drugs in universities.

The resolution brought the attention of International community and particularly the UN.

VIENNA : During the 61st annual meeting on the Commission on Narcotics Drugs [CND], a resolution to stop the usage and supply of drugs for-

Academic institutions has been passed with endorsements from all member countries unanimously which was presented by the Pakistani delegation.

The historic resolution would prove as a landmark in the efforts across all the member countries to eliminate drugs from their academic institutions.

It is pertinent to mention other member countries including Belarus, Libya, Nigeria, Paraguay, Philippines, China, Russia, Indonesia and Vietnam have also entered their cooperative participation keeping in view-

The potential positive impact and importance of the Pakistani resolution.

The resolution brought the attention of the international community and particularly UN towards the issue of drug abuse in educational institutions.

It was agreed that this problem needs special attention and immediate interventions at all levels particularly Policy initiatives by each country.

POET CLARIBEL ALEGRIA : 1924-2018

Claribel Alegria : Will always be remembered as Poet of  sorrow and struggle. A poet who wrote of the harsh realities of  Central American life and the search for identity and hope-

Work informed by her own uprooting, first from Nicaragua and then from EI Salvador - died on Jan 25, in Managua, the Nicaraguan capital. She was 93.

Reporting on her funereal in Managua two days after her death, the newspaper EI Nuevo Diario wrote that her ashes would be divided between the two countries.

Her parents had taken her to EI Salvador from Nicaragua when she was a baby, but she returned their to live years later.

''EI Salvador is the fatherland because it's where i grew up.'' she told an interviewer in 1999. ''But my motherland, Nicaragua, has welcomed with open arms.''

During her lifetime she saw both countries torn by struggles for liberation. That tumult was reflected in the dozen of books she wrote, not only poetry but also novels and histories, some written with her husband, Darwin J. Flakoll.

Hers was a sometimes a blunt vision, as in ''Documentary,'' a poem about EI Salvador that includes these lines:

*Besides the coffee
They plant angels
In my country.
A chorus of children
And women
With the small white coffin
Move politely aside
And the harvest passes by.*

Ms. Alegria's many books of poetry include  ''Flowers From the Volcano'' [1982] and the bilingual collection ''Sundade/Sorrow'' 1999.

She also wrote children's books.